Julius Novick
By Julius Novick
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Books An Actress for The Ages
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt By Robert Gottlieb Yale University Press, 233 pages, $25 Robert Gottlieb?s biography of Sarah Bernhardt is the first volume in ?Jewish Lives,? a ?major new series? being offered by Yale University Press. But in what sense did this most legendary of actresses live a Jewish life? Her mother was…
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Culture View From a Bridge of Posterity
Arthur Miller: 1915–1962 By Christopher Bigsby Harvard University Press, 776 pages, $35.00. Arthur Miller is, by any measure, the most eminent and the most acclaimed Jewish playwright the world has ever seen. Most people who know his name probably would accept his greatness as a given. Yet he has been attacked vigorously: for his left-wing…
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